8. rehearsals

Today we started the rehearsal with repeating the learned movement combinations.
They really have to be rehearsed a lot since it is suppose to be the "pefect" part of the piece.So I really want the dancers to put lots of effort in rehearsing so that they can totally stand behind the result.
After that I started working on the "statements of failure" .
So I asked each of them to take notes on the personal feeling of failure.To describe the feelings they have in a moment of failure or to tell a story. I left open how deep they wanted to go into it, since it´s quite a private thing.
Than I told them to spread in the room and start telling me about their thoughts on the asked questions. I decided the starting person and in the middle of her statement I let the next person start her statement and the otherone had to stop. With that system I let each of them tell their storys, with little interruptions but with the task to start again at exactly the point of interruption, so they continued their storys in the end, but all the storys where mixed.

A short example for a better understanding:-):





I think the sitting in the room is not working so well, cause it just gives me to much the impression of a self- help group, maybe through the composition of sitting, and talking one after the other.
But when I saw them sitting there and talking such intimate stuff I felt that is was very intense though and what worked was the basic idea of sharing an intimate moment of fail
ure.

So I had to think about how to give them the chance to have this very honest and intimate moment on stage.

And I noticed what made it really interesting and privat was actually how each of them told their thoughts (you could clearly see who was honest and who made themseves vulnerable), their face was really intersting to me.


So what I tried out next was, that each of them had to tell their story into a camera.


My idea is that I want the audience to share their privacy kind of, but to make it still a private thing and not a "showing of with my story thing".Means I didn´t wanted them to tell the story directly to the audience. More like the audience is having a glimpse on a private moment.
I also wanted this moment to really happen live on stage. So the idea is that each of them is telling their thoughts, feeling to their own intimate failure situations to a camera (as form of dirary) or it could even be seen as a close friend.I don´t want it to have the character of an interview, so I decided that they are holding the camera themselves. And they can move it as they want.

This way they can even do it with the back to the audience
The cameras are connected with cabels to a projector, which projects the picture (manly the face) to a white screen onto the back wall.Since I would like to still have the moment private but still seen closly by the audience.
One example:

I think it´ll be a clear challenge to stay very honest on stage. I don´t want it to be played in anyway at all. I really want them to not learn their story by heart.

For that I´ll ask them to think of a new situation of failure or another angle to it, to make it as honest as possible.


From our first try, I still like that they are talking disrodered, so that it´s more like frazzles of thoughts.One starts her thoughts and the other one interrupting for her own view on it. Three different views, storys. Getting a connection by the disordered composition.



In conclusion, this rehearsal brought in a new aspect of how to continue with the statements of failure.

The aspect of cameras and live projections on a screen.